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Happy Dance!!!
Asbjorn,
A great many thanks for being able to move the tourney to Friday
Of course this means the couple of armour projects I put off are now going to have to go onto the front burner again.

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Josh, Bloody sweet! It'sa varry nice! Just because I love posting these photos... Here's my mid/late-15th century Anglo(?)-Italian harness, minus the bargrilled barbuta I wear for SCA: m m Ain't I sexy? For the record, it has new couters (and a new backplate on the way...) since these photos were ta...

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Persona is a late 15th century squire.
(armour is not done yet)
http://home.armourarchive.org/members/w ... ready2.jpg
http://home.armourarchive.org/members/w ... aceoff.jpg
Here are the rest of the pics of varying stages of my armour:
http://home.armourarchive.org/members/w ... ess/image/
Working on the webpages today.
Also I am going to put a report together for the PIAB., and I hope to have pics of my full harness after Pennsic.

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http://www.thequarter.org/Media/Teutonic.php
Just because it has not been posted in a while.

Vitus wrote:Duke Andreas, I never realized that you were a member of the Teutonic Order.

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Well that definetly puts me in a bind, two of the tourneys that I most want to participate in. And I am really committed to the Squire's tourney.

Definetly let me know if there are any changes a foot.

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Mongal, For someone who does not know how to put it in words you have done a great job so far. Something along the lines of this?: My Lord, I do humbly wish to pledge to be a loyal squire to you. From my first event, where you were kind and generous to me and spent almost the entire event introducin...

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You are sick and twisted individual. Which is probably why we like you so much.

Baron Alejandro wrote:Nope. You've all got it wrong. The Worst Ever Heraldry is a "Per pale, a peephole heater."

Think about it. You'll get it.

Alejandro

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A dozen puns and jokes spring to mind when I saw both the COA and the name Shittimwoode. Egad

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Since he is holding the rounded tip executioner style sword, my guess is that it is not an arming cote, but a pourpoint for when the blood splatters.

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I just scanned it in this afternoon.

I have been considering scanning a few more in to get greater detail like that.

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This is a close up of the tapestry that James is referring to:
<img src="http://home.armourarchive.org/members/winter/images/pourpoint.jpg">

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Odd, I just checked and they files seem fine.

they are both roughly 10 mb a pop. Did you try save target as?

dukelogan wrote:im getting read errors trying to view them with (quicktime 6.5) on both the first (3.9mb) and the second (6.74mb).

anyone else having problems viewing them?

regards
logan

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As time has finallly allowed I can give a small account of yesterday, in the High Speech, as Sir Vitus names; I pray attend to my most humble account that on this past Saturday, on the Feast of Saint Alexander, in the year Anno Societas nine and thirty, in the summer of the reign of King Cuan Mac Da...

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Once again congratulations to Sir Bryce de Byram who was knighted this day.
I am in a time crunch so I will post more later, but for now:
Pictures!
http://home.armourarchive.org/members/w ... ssessment/

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Its a demo, hard to tell if it is slowed down for the audience or if it was slowed down in video editing.
They appear to be studying Joachim Meyer. What I don't understand is why they start in "Ochs" out of distance, and then transition to a cut before crossing swords.

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Well this answers the question for me at least.
Looks great:
http://www.weymark.com/SCA/TOC/TOC-Images/9.jpg
http://www.weymark.com/SCA/TOC/TOC-Images/25.jpg
http://www.weymark.com/SCA/TOC/TOC-Images/18.jpg

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Great pics!
(You have to back up a bit on the url to see them folks)

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Unfortunately for me, all my plans have come to naught. I have been fighting an illness that is has now manifested itself into my throat that has only gone from bad to worse. I cannot really speak, and if I did go it would be as an observer only, but my lady wife does not wish me to make the trek as...

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Off the top of my head I would lay odds on the Templars.
For the charge as well as the armour, and possibly the archery as well.
However I would have to look up the armour and tactics employed by both types. Fortunately I have a large library.

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So who is planning on attending?
What weapons forms are people interested in using, besides the ole sword and shield?

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I had one of those helmets briefly years ago.
Fortunately I was smart enough not to try to wear it on the field, I would have broken my nose.
Waldrk has some good stuff.

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Since the implementation of the rules for non blatantly modern items on the Atlantian fighting fields last December, what are peoples thoughts on it? Overall how do you think it is going? Personally I have only heard of a couple of gripes, that can easily be smoothed over. Have you seen or heard of ...

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It is not that head shots are legal or not, it is just an added safety issue for just in cases, since the head is not intentionaly targeted. Now then given the overall strength, cost and form of the Deepeeka helms, with a proper liner they would hold up ok with blunt steel. Poleaxes on the other han...

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I started dealing with Deepeeka directly last year, and got a chance to see a lot of thier stuff up close in their American Warehouse. The gothic suit had a lot of problems with it, which I explained to them and why and what was more accurate and why. They took notes the entire time. A couple of mon...

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The full blown concept of knighthood, which we intrepret to mean today, was still fairly abstract in the mid 1100's. What marked the difference between a knight and a proffesional man at arms, was the restrictions and hereditary prestige placed on the office of knighthood. It became, with exceptions...

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If you ask really really nicely and if I finally get my kit the way I like, I'll post pictures, including full greaves and sabatons!

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I like the pic on the left, classic "Oh Crap" image.

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This is what I will be wearing at Pennsic (plus or minus a few armour bits)
<img src="http://home.armourarchive.org/members/winter/images/whyifight.jpg">

I will be fighting in Sir Thomas of Calais' Household, Barony of Ponte Alto, Atlantia.

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http://justus.pair.com/GalleryPhotos/sl ... tSide.html

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Red or Blue. Either in a brilliant bright such as cardinal red or azure blue, or rich dark, such as burgundy or navy.

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The shield would probably be covered in something like canvass and if you really want to be authentic the best way woudl be milk paint.

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My first helmet was a german sallet with an attached bevor. It was well made, but it was not originally made for me, and as a result it would cover my nose a bit, so I ended up breathing hot air all the time. Overall it was not bad, and it gave me great coverage. Currently I wear an italian bellows ...

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some folks do shave down the sides of their swords.
I have yet to do so, but the ones that I have handled that have, act closer to real swords then the just a round stick.

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Much as I would like to see it, the SCA does have to account for the "Most Common Idiot Factor". Just because I am safe with a steel sword, and Flonzy is safe with a steel sword does not mean that some other guy/gal is. This is one of the reasons that we do not have grappling either. If you allow it...

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Matched single maces and buckler?
hmmmmmm...

Jehan de Pelham wrote:Winterfell, yes, some wierd stuff, like matched 4' danish axes, or matched single maces and buckler, or matched poll axe--things that you don't see every day.

Jehan de Pelham, squire of Sir Vitus

Congratulations SIR BdB

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